Carley: Name Meaning, Origin, Popularity, & Inspiration - FamilyEducation

Updated June 9, 2019

Girl name origins & meanings

Latin : Strong one
Old German : Freeholder; Feminine form of Carl

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Old English : Carl's island

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Family name origins & meanings

Reduced form of Irish McCarley.
English : habitational name from the hamlet of Carley in Lifton, Devon, possibly named with Cornish ker ‘fort’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Perhaps an Americanized form of German Kehrli or Kerle (see Kerley).